On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:19 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Ric Moore wrote: > > I get this again (same ole same ole) > > > > xine BYRDS_SO_YOU_WANT_TO_BE_A_ROCK_N__ROLL_STAR.flv > > This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.4. > > (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team. > > Compiler did not align stack variables. Libavcodec has been miscompiled > > and may be very slow or crash. This is not a bug in libavcodec, > > but in the compiler. Do not report crashes to FFmpeg developers. > > > > Someone shoot me and just end this never ending misery. > > -- > I know the feeling, Ric. Xine gave up on me a few weeks ago - without > warning. It just refused to play my disks. Mplayer gave up at the same > time. I never did get xine running again, but a livna update a couple of > days ago got mplayer working again. Misery indeed. I've been relying on my > Mandriva laptop for video burn testing for weeks. Fortunately, theirs > doesn't seem to get constantly broken like this. That's weird, mplayer plays the .flv files just swell... maybe I should be glad that update seems to be broken now as well? I've not got much hair left after ripping some out. I just wanted to remove all xine and ffmpeg files to start over, but a dependency on KDE control center just left a burning hole in my guts. Right in the middle of my belated tax preparation. I - not - understand. <grunt> shouldn't it be so easy that a caveman could do it? <walks away on my knuckles> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
